Mother orders son's death

Motif

Mother orders son's death.

Unnatural cruelty. · Cruel relatives. · Cruel parents. · view the constellation · filed as S12.3

Scholars’ trail — 3references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

IcelandicVölsunga saga ch. 6–8, 40 (38), 43 (41)
Italian NovellaRotunda
IndiaThompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Cruel mother.

Filed beside it

Treacherous mother marries ogre and plots against son Cruel mother kills child Cruel mother blinds son Cruel mother expels (drives away) child Cruel mother refuses children food Mother tells healthy sons to wipe soiled hands on lame son

Travels with

Queen offers son to be killed in order to spur to fight and avenge her first husband. (Cf. S12.3.)

wander